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very

[ver-ee] / ˈvɛr i /
ADJECTIVE
real, exact
Synonyms
WEAK
actual appropriate authentic bare bona fide correct especial express genuine ideal identical indubitable mere model perfect plain precise pure right same selfsame sheer simple special sure-enough true undoubted unqualified unquestionable veritable very same
Antonyms
WEAK
inexact
ADVERB
much, really; to a high degree
Synonyms
STRONGEST
absolutely awfully certainly decidedly deeply eminently exceedingly excessively extraordinarily extremely greatly highly incredibly noticeably particularly pretty profoundly remarkably surprisingly terribly truly uncommonly unusually wonderfully
WEAK
acutely amply astonishingly considerably dearly emphatically exaggeratedly extensively indispensably largely notably positively powerfully pressingly prodigiously substantially superlatively surpassingly vastly
Antonyms
STRONGEST
commonly doubtfully dubiously indefinite little unremarkably usually

Example Sentences

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Both men made their professional debuts on 8 April 2017 but their journeys to the top have been very different.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

“We were all very sad and stressed when my dad was very sick and Sharon just understood the situation and was very professional.”

From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026

As someone who’s being kept alive this very month by incredible advances in biotechnology, I am a zealous proponent for disruptive innovation.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

In fact, the very sentence after the one the Virginia court ruled on specifically emphasized that federal law worked by “establishing a particular day as ‘the day’ on which these actions must take place.”

From Slate • May 8, 2026

“I’ve been doing this for a very long time.”

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman